Prachi Desai: Everyone loves me as wife
After last year’s Rock On cutie pie Prachi Desai is back with Life Partner, which is quite a big project as it has been produced by Abbas Mustan. She talks about being an expert at playing a wife, working with Genelia and not going back to TV.
What is your role in Life Partner?I play a married woman! It’s not that I am married from the beginning till the end. I play a Gujarati girl, from a royal family. She is educated, knows the world, smart and modern yet she is very attached to her family and believes in the traditional value system. She runs her father's business and believes in the institution of marriage and is a dutiful wife. It's a mad film more so because you have great actors like Govinda, Tusshar Kapoor and Fardeen Khan who have an impeccable sense of comic timing.
You already know Tusshar. How was it working with Genelia?
Oh! She is a darling. We have become quite a friend. We really got along well on the sets and were like pranksters.
It has been a year since Rock On released.
It's exactly a year now. I am really happy about the way it changed my career, my plans and everything around me. But I am not resting on my laurels as I plan to do a number of roles. It has been a great year so far.
You played a wife in Rock On and are doing the same in Life Partner.
I think not only the audiences but the directors too have started loving me as a wife. But on a serious note Life Partner is one film I really wanted to do because of the script and the role. It's just a coincidence that so far I have always played a married woman on screen. But I too now want to do films, where I can play other roles. It's time now that I should take this into concern.
You have always been married on screen. Won’t you get typecast?
To be honest I am very conscious about that. I think before I did films, the directors had seen me only as a married woman on television. But I can't deny that it's because of television that I am here today, got so many good roles and now I am looking forward to a steady career in Bollywood. Actually, most people still can't guess my age or may be they are completely unaware that I am only 20 years old. They have always seen me in a saree and with sindoor on my forehead. So it's also not their fault. I too want to play my age and very soon you will see me doing that. At the same time I also think it's a great achievement for me to have played roles of older, married women which otherwise is played by senior actresses with years of experience.
Do you feel like going back to TV? What is Ekta Kapoor asks you?
I miss TV but I won’t go back for a while. Ekta Kapoor is my mentor and my friend. I take suggestions from her and she is always there for me. She knows what I want so she won’t ask me to go back to TV
What are you doing next?
I have Once Upon a Time in Mumbai, another film and a few more that I will sign. I am very excited.
If You Liked The Posts Say It In comments !!!
Oh! She is a darling. We have become quite a friend. We really got along well on the sets and were like pranksters.
It has been a year since Rock On released.
It's exactly a year now. I am really happy about the way it changed my career, my plans and everything around me. But I am not resting on my laurels as I plan to do a number of roles. It has been a great year so far.
You played a wife in Rock On and are doing the same in Life Partner.
I think not only the audiences but the directors too have started loving me as a wife. But on a serious note Life Partner is one film I really wanted to do because of the script and the role. It's just a coincidence that so far I have always played a married woman on screen. But I too now want to do films, where I can play other roles. It's time now that I should take this into concern.
You have always been married on screen. Won’t you get typecast?
To be honest I am very conscious about that. I think before I did films, the directors had seen me only as a married woman on television. But I can't deny that it's because of television that I am here today, got so many good roles and now I am looking forward to a steady career in Bollywood. Actually, most people still can't guess my age or may be they are completely unaware that I am only 20 years old. They have always seen me in a saree and with sindoor on my forehead. So it's also not their fault. I too want to play my age and very soon you will see me doing that. At the same time I also think it's a great achievement for me to have played roles of older, married women which otherwise is played by senior actresses with years of experience.
Do you feel like going back to TV? What is Ekta Kapoor asks you?
I miss TV but I won’t go back for a while. Ekta Kapoor is my mentor and my friend. I take suggestions from her and she is always there for me. She knows what I want so she won’t ask me to go back to TV
What are you doing next?
I have Once Upon a Time in Mumbai, another film and a few more that I will sign. I am very excited.
PROSites
